NetBSD 7.0 RC2 is now available for download and testing

Jul 29, 2015 01:30 GMT  ·  By

On July 28, the NetBSD Project, through Soren Jacobsen, announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the second RC (Release Candidate) version of the anticipated NetBSD 7.0 distribution.

According to the release notes, which we have attached at the end of the article for reference, NetBSD 7.0 Release Candidate 2 is here to update the OpenSSL packages to version 1.0.1p, to update the BIND packages to version 9.10.2-P2, to add Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) support in Xen kernels, and to add wedge names support in installboot.

Additionally, there's a fix for a memory leak in the drm2 code, an X11 crash that occurred on Intel i915 DRMKMS graphics cards was addressed, and some security issues were patched in the calendar tool. A quota panic issue was fixed as well, along with fixes for handling of the erase character on the tset tool, and a fix for a NULL dereference in the npfctl utility.

"On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the second release candidate of NetBSD 7.0," says Soren Jacobsen. "As always, please let us know how 7.0_RC2 works for you! Any feedback, whether good or bad, is welcome. Problems should be reported through the usual channels."

Many other issues were addressed in NetBSD 7.0 RC2

NetBSD 7.0 RC2 makes sure that the /etc/man.conf file reflects the modern mandoc world (PR 50020) and that the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file is always up to date by adding postinstall checks, addresses a random FPU register corruption for the PowerPC (PPC) platform, fixes a couple of problems for the m68k architecture, and repairs the "MKCTF=yes" option on drm2 kernels.

Moreover, it is now possible to boot kernels that have more than 4 MB of combined .bss and .data segments on the SPARC64 platform, there's better support for the ARM architecture, some issue with lrint(x) and llrint(x) was fixed, a GCC 4.8 execution was patched on the Amiga platform, NPF was updated to support unregistered interfaces, and bugs were fixed in the gdb and zgrep utilities.

You can download NetBSD 7.0 RC2 right now from Softpedia or directly from the project's website, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, and some known issues are present. Thus, we do not recommend installing it in a production environment where stability is of the essence.

NetBSD 7.0 RC2 Changelog